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PAWSON JOHN
John Pawson has spent over thirty years making rigorously simple architecture that speaks of the fundamentals but is also modest in character. His body of work spans a broad range of scales and typologies, from private houses, sacred commissions, galleries, museums, hotels, ballet sets, yacht interiors and a bridge across a lake.  
As Alvar Aalto’s bronze door handle has been characterised as the ‘handshake of a building’, so a sense of engaging with the essence of a philosophy of space through everything the eye sees or the hand touches is a defining aspect of Pawson’s work. 
His method is to approach buildings and design commissions in precisely the same manner, on the basis that ‘it’s all architecture’. Whether at the scale of a monastery, a house, a saucepan or a ballet, everything is traceable back to a consistent set of preoccupations with mass, volume, surface, proportion, junction, geometry, repetition, light and ritual. In this way, even something as modest as a fork can become a vehicle for much broader ideas about how we live and what we value.

www.johnpawson.com

City: LONDON

Nation: UK

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  • FARINI BAKERY & CAFÉ

    Driving the brief for the project was the requirement that these premises in Milan be at once a gallery for bread, a stage for bakers and a gathering place for customers, with its various spaces simultaneously susceptible to the very different disciplines of curation and choreography.  The outcome...

  • 215 CHRYSTIE – PUBLIC HOTEL

    215 Chrystie offers eleven one-of-a-kind condominium residences with interiors by critically acclaimed British designer John Pawson. The building was designed by world-renowned, Pritzker Prize award-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron who are known for their iconic structures around the...

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